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title: 'Quality Assurance Engineer at Reality Defender'
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# Quality Assurance Engineer at Reality Defender

- **Company:** Reality Defender
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $120k–$150k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/realitydefender/cab9bc40-2343-45ed-98ef-1fee80d5e99d

## Job description

Quality Assurance Engineer NYC HQ or Remote (U.S.) | Full-time | Engineering | Reports to: Quality Assurance Lead Who we are. Reality Defender is an award-winning cybersecurity company helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media. Utilizing a patented multi-model approach, Reality Defender is robust against the bleeding edge of generative platforms producing video, audio, imagery, and text media. Reality Defender's API-first deepfake detection platform empowers teams and developers alike to identify fraud, disinformation campaigns, and harmful deepfakes in real time. Backed by world class investors including DCVC, Illuminate Financial, Y Combinator, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Accenture, Rackhouse, and Argon VC, Reality Defender works with leading enterprise clients, financial institutions, and governments in order to ensure AI-generated media is not used for malicious purposes. Youtube: Reality Defender Wins RSA Most Innovative Startup The Quality Assurance Engineer Role. Our customers rely on Reality Defender to make high-stakes calls in real time — whether the voice on a bank's phone line or the face in a job interview is real. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you'll make sure what we ship holds up to that standard, testing our APIs, SDKs, web app, and real-time integrations, and building the automation that lets us release faster without breaking things. This is a full-time role based at our NYC headquarters or remote within the U.S., reporting to Quality Assurance Lead. Responsibilities include:

- Own test planning and execution for assigned product areas — APIs, SDKs, the web app, and real-time voice and video integrations — from requirements review through release sign-off.
- Build and maintain automated test suites (API, end-to-end, and regression) and integrate them into our CI/CD pipelines.
- Find, document, and track defects with clear reproduction steps, severity, and impact, and work with engineers through to resolution.
- Test the reliability and performance of real-time detection under realistic conditions — latency, load, varied audio and video quality, and different platforms and devices.
- Help maintain the test data and media sets used to validate each release.
- Partner with the AI Research and Red Team to support model release validation and regression testing.
- Help Customer Support and Solutions Engineering reproduce and triage customer-reported issues.
- Contribute to QA standards, documentation, and release checklists across the engineering team.

Who you are.

- 3+ years of experience in software QA or quality engineering, testing web applications and APIs in a fast-moving release environment.
- Hands-on experience writing automated tests in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar, using frameworks such as Pytest, Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
- Experience testing REST APIs (e.g., Postman or code-based API tests) and working within CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).
- Strong attention to detail and a systematic approach to finding edge cases — you think about how things break, not just whether they work.
- Clear written communication: your bug reports and test plans are easy for engineers to act on.
- Experience testing audio, video, or real-time communication products (WebRTC, telephony, conferencing). (nice to have)
- Experience testing ML-powered products or working with test datasets. (nice to have)
- Exposure to performance or load testing tools (e.g., k6, Locust, JMeter). (nice to have)

Within 12 months, you'll…

- Own QA for multiple product areas with minimal oversight.
- Have helped establish quality metrics (escaped defects, coverage, release stability) that the team tracks and acts on.
- Be improving QA tooling and practices beyond your own areas.
- Be ready to take on broader scope and mentor newer QA team members.

What we offer. Reality Defender offers the following benefits to all our employees, regardless of location:

- Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents
- Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents
- Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees
- FSA/HSA and 401k programs
- Equity compensation
- 20 days of PTO per year
- 12 weeks of Parental Leave
- Learning and Development budget
- Monthly wellness benefits
- Annual company-sponsored offsite

For employees working from Reality Defender's HQ in NYC, we offer the following benefits:

- Daily in-office lunch through UberEats
- Commuter benefits
- Remote Fridays
- Happy Hours and other local events

Base salary range: $120k-$150k, based on experience and location. Includes equity.

## About Reality Defender

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Reality Defender is a deepfake detection platform that protects enterprises and governments from real-time AI-generated media fraud across voice, video, image, and text.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Ben Colman (CEO), Gaurav Bharaj, Ali Shahriyari

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Computer and Network Security / Deepfake Detection
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises, financial institutions, government agencies, and critical infrastructure operators
- **Mission**: Become the de facto AI detection standard for large organizations, ensuring trust in an AI-enabled world by providing real-time detection of synthetic media.

## Products & Services
- **Reality Defender API & SDKs**: Award-winning AI models for detecting deepfakes and AI-manipulated media across audio, video, and images. Free tier available for developers.
- **Contact Center Security**: Real-time detection of deepfake impersonations during calls to prevent fraud.
- **Secure Video Conferencing**: Protects video meetings from synthetic media injection and impersonation.
- **Access Security & Fraud Prevention**: Identity verification and user authentication with deepfake detection.
- **Brand & Executive Protection**: Monitors and detects impersonation of executives and brands across channels.
- **Government Solutions**: Tailored detection layers for high-risk environments, including defense and intelligence.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (total funding $48.6M)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue $4.5M (estimated); total funding $48.6M across 9 rounds (Series A $33M led by Illuminate Financial, Oct 2024)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Illuminate Financial (lead Series A), Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs, SXSW (grant), JPMorgan (Hall of Innovation), World Economic Forum (Technology Pioneer), USA DIU + Japan MOD (Global Innovation Challenge winner)
- **Growth Signals**: 63 employees (+26.9% YoY); recognized as market leader by Gartner (2025); won RSA Conference “Most Innovative Startup” (2024); inducted into JPMorgan Hall of Innovation (2025); operates in 8 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Ensemble detection engine**: Uses hundreds of simultaneous, platform-agnostic techniques to detect the widest array of synthetic content.
- **Multi-modal coverage**: Real-time detection across voice, video, image, and text.
- **Enterprise-grade scale**: Deploy-anywhere solutions integrated into existing workflows (calls, meetings, identity systems).
- **Bleeding edge resilience**: Models are continuously blended, tested, and updated to anticipate new generative AI threats.
- **Strong partnerships and trust**: Advisory council includes former CIA, Google Privacy Officer, and military leaders; clients include financial institutions and government agencies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling enterprise adoption, expanding into new verticals (finance, government), deepening real-time detection capabilities, and building the “Enterprise Authenticity Layer” for critical communications.
- **Growth direction**: Becoming the standard for deepfake detection in large organizations, investing in research (publications on audio and video detection), and growing the team (10 open positions as of mid-2026).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Work on cutting-edge AI security that directly protects people, institutions, and democratic trust.
- **Culture**: Values of integrity, continuous innovation, cross-functionality, impact, and inclusion. Emphasizes transparency and rigorous testing.
- **Work environment**: Collaborative in-office environment in historic Tribeca, New York City. Team of builders, researchers, and realists.
- **Benefits**: Competitive health and wellness benefits, generous employee perks, and investment in professional growth.
- **Engineering culture**: Bleeding-edge AI research, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and opportunities to publish and contribute to the field.

## Sources
1. [realitydefender.com/company](https://www.realitydefender.com/company)
2. [realitydefender.com/](https://www.realitydefender.com/)
3. [realitydefender.com/careers](https://www.realitydefender.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/reality-defender](https://www.linkedin.com/company/reality-defender)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/realitydefender](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/realitydefender)

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